[Openmp-dev] On Improving the Build System

["C. Bergström"]

On 03/13/14 12:36 AM, Peyton, Jonathan L wrote:
>
> People have been complaining about our build system, and we are about 
> to invest some effort to improve things.
>
> However, you have also been telling us that we should be using CMake, 
> whereas the LLVM docs have extensive documentation for both gmake and 
> CMake.
>
> In fact, the Development Process Documentation (http://llvm.org/docs/) 
> has a Makefile (gmake) guide for developers, but the User Guides has
>
> tutorials for building by configure/gmake or CMake.
>
> So what do you really want?
>
> Cmake generating gmake makefiles?
>
cmake please - it's portable and can generate gmake files on those 
platforms that support it. (It supports all targets that I'm aware of on 
all platforms (Solaris, Win (mingw/cyg/msvc/ninja), LNX, BSD, OSX etc)